Comparison
The app builders want you to launch. We want you to keep.
Lovable, Base44, Replit and friends are impressive tools with a specific dream behind them: you're a founder, this is your MVP, and one day it'll have a million users. If that's you — go with our blessing, they're good at it. Croft is built on a different dream: the software is small, the users all know each other, and the app should quietly work for years. Different dream, different design decisions all the way down.
| The app builders | Croft | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Launching a startup | Running your actual life and work |
| Your apps are | Public URLs by default | Private by default, behind your login |
| Users are | Strangers who sign up | People you invite by name |
| Login & security | Generated per app by the AI | Built into the platform — apps can't get it wrong |
| Pricing | Credits and usage meters | One flat price, your own Claude does the AI |
| When you leave | Export code, find hosting, good luck | Take your server. It was yours all along |
| The endgame | Scale or die | Still working in five years |
Where they beat us: if you want a public app anyone on the internet can sign up for, a mobile app in an app store, or something that might need to serve ten thousand people — use them, not us. Croft has a ceiling and we built it on purpose. The ceiling is why everything else on this page is true.
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